Monday, April 1, 2013

Another milestone today!

April 1 – We now have all six school webpages completed and ready for the Challenge launch on Monday, April 8! Click on their links and check them out!
Getting ready for the start of the Eco-Footprint Challenge has taken a lot of work by everyone concerned - our already busy teachers and school administrators, their students and the volunteers who have agreed to help.
Just the school videos had to take several hours of planning, writing and rehearsing. You can see these 3-minute videos on each school's Challenge webpages or on our Vimeo channel. Each school website page has a short video about the school's project. The kids do a great job, and so did the people who wrote their scripts. Each video has some great moments, like the student rapper at Whitewater Middle School (who I'm fairly sure wrote his own rap) to the kids at Catawba Heights Elementary telling us, "We plan to change the world one student, one worm, one apple core at a time!"
Great moments, and we're just getting started.
Be sure to sign up to get email alerts about blog updates at your favorite school. Have some spare time? Click here to learn how to contact each team coordinator and volunteer to help! You'll be glad you did!
Rich Haag
Eco-Footprint Challenge communications director

Welcome to Eco-Footprint Challenge

This blog chronicles our exciting educational experiment to nurture a love of science, technology, engineering and math among children in the Catawba River District in North Carolina. Explore this blog and schoolecochallenge.org, to learn much more.